Hitchens describes her ties to financier Charles Keating, who gave her $1.25 million before being convicted for his role in the savings and loan scandal (1986–1995).

He includes a facsimile of a letter she wrote testifying to Keating's good character, followed by a letter from the prosecutor's office to Mother Teresa detailing Keating's crimes, the thousands of people he "fleeced without flinching" of $252 million.

The prosecutor asked her to do "what Jesus would do if he were in possession of money that had been stolen … if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his conscience".

I don't know where to begin with this level of delusion. Christopher Hitchens may have believed that no one had ever heard of anyone until that person had been interviewed by a posh English journalist, but that says it all about him. And about you.

No one remembers him for anything apart from this. If he had not been Peter Hitchens's brother, then no one would remember him at all. He would have been just another crank, out there on the Internet somewhere.

He couldn't hack it a country where people greeted him with anything other than, "Oh I just love your accent," and did not assume that all Englishmen were clever, or at least knew what they were talking about.

How far he ever really hacked it even elsewhere, though, is highly debatable.